Privacy Policy

Who We Are

In this privacy policy references to “we”, “us” and “our” are to the North Herts Guild of Singers. References to “our Website” or “the Website” are to www.nhgs.org.uk.

What information we collect and how

The information we collect via the Website may include.

Any personal details you knowingly provide us with through forms and our email, such as name, address, telephone number etc.

Your IP Address, this is a string of numbers unique to your computer that is recorded by our web server when you request any page or component on the Website. This information is used to monitor your usage of the Website.

What we do with your information

Any personal information we collect from this website will be used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and other applicable laws. The details we collect will be used:

To process your enquiry;

In certain cases we will use your email address to send you information about our concerts, our Friends scheme, and any other of our activities we think you might be interested in. If you no longer wish to receive such information, we will remove your name from our mailing list as soon as practical after you have have requested it. Please contact the Hon. Secretary with your request.

Your rights

You have the right to request a copy of any information that we currently hold about you. In order to receive such information please contact us.

Other websites

This privacy policy only covers this website. Any other websites which may be linked to by our website are subject to their own policy, which may differ from ours.

Cookie Policy

What are Cookies and why we use them

Our website, along with most commercial websites use cookies in one form or the other. Cookies are small pieces of information that a website saves in a cookie index file on your computer's hard drive. Cookies have many uses, and although they are usually used for innocent services like keeping track of a users session (e.g. to ensure a logged on user can only access their own information), amongst other debatably less innocent uses they can also be used for serving tailored adverts to people based on their browsing habits - something which people may object to.

We do NOT store any personal information in cookies OR use them for any advertising purposes whatsoever. We use cookies for the following:

Google Analytics - a web analytics tool which gives us (anonymous) information on website visitors to help us improve our service to you (We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes). It provides us with general information such as visitor numbers, what pages are being viewed, what browsers are being used and what websites or search terms were used to access our website.

Cookies in no way give us any form of access to your computer, or to any personal information about you.

You can choose whether to accept or reject cookies. Web browsers typically automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser settings to delete and/or disable cookies if you prefer. This may limit your use of websites (for example preventing you from logging in to an account). For more information about cookies, and how to set your browser to reject cookies please go to www.allaboutcookies.org.